Desert Queen (30 page)

Gertrude, aged sixteen, before going away to Queens College in London.
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Billy Lascelles, Gertrude’s first love.
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Gertrude with family and friends at Rounton after a game of lawn tennis.
Seated center
: Gertrude, Hugh Bell.
To their left
: Molly Bell, Maurice Bell, Valentine “Domnul” Chirol
(wearing sailor’s cap)
, Gerald Lascelles, Florence Bell.
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Vice-Consul Dick Doughty-Wylie with his wife, Judith, in their garden in Konia, Turkey, July 1907. Dick and Gertrude would become more than just good friends.
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Dick Doughty-Wylie, 1914. Soldier, statesman, poet, adventurer, he was everything Gertrude dreamed of in a man.
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Gertrude, dressed in her cotton frock, with her servant Fattuh outside her tent in Turkey, June 1907.
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Gertrude taking measurements at her major archaeological discovery, Ukhaidir, Iraq, 1909.
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The high-columned guest house at Hayil where Gertrude was kept prisoner, 1914.
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Gertrude’s caravan ready to leave the walled city of Hayil, headquarters of Ibn Rashid, 1914.
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Gertrude Bell and Percy Cox give Arabian warrior Ibn Saud a royal tour of Basrah, November 1916.
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Hugh Bell reading the newspapers in the sitting room of Gertrude’s house in Baghdad, 1920.
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Arnold T. Wilson, 1920. Gertrude’s main adversary, he made life difficult for her in Baghdad.